Diane E. Marting
Curriculum vitae

Associate Professor of Spanish

EDUCATION:

  • Ph. D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
  • B.A. with Honors in Comparative Literature, Ohio State University

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

  • Comparative Literature, Spanish-American Literature, Spanish Golden Age Literature, Women Writers, Feminist Criticism and Theory, Literary Theory

MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES:

  • Span 304, Conversation and Composition II
  • Span 577, Survey of Spanish Literature I
  • Span 579 & 580, Survey of Spanish American Literature I & II
  • a rotating cycle of 500-level literature classes

PUBLICATIONS:

    MONOGRAPHS (sole-authored):

    • The Sexual Woman in Latin American Fiction: Dangerous Desires, University Press of Florida, 2001. 336 pp.

    MONOGRAPHS (edited):

    • General contributing editor and introduction. Clarice Lispector: A Bio Bibliography. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishing, 1993. 329 + xviii pp.
    • General contributing editor and revised introduction. Escritoras de Hispanoamérica. Spanish edited by Montserrat Ordóñez. Bogotá, Colombia: Siglo XXI, 1991. (Translation of Spanish American Women Writers: A Source Book of Bio Bibliographical Essays, see below.) 637 pp. + xxiv.
    • General contributing editor and introduction. Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio Bibliographical Source Book. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1990. 645 + xxvi pp.
    • General contributing editor and introduction. Women Writers of Spanish America: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Bibliographies and Indexes in Women’s Studies, No. 5. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987. 448 pp. + xvi.

    ARTICLES (all articles are peer-reviewed unless indicated "npr"):

      Chapters in Books of Criticism

    • “Dangerous (to) Women: Latin American Sexual Fiction,” Narrativa femenina en América Latina: Prácticas y perspectivas teóricas./ Latin American Women’s Narrative: Practices and Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Sara Castro-Klarén, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Vervuert Verlag, 2003; and Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2003. 197-219. Essay adapted from introduction to The Sexual Woman in Latin American Fiction. By invitation.
    • “The Representation of Female Sexuality in Amor, ciudad atribuida, poemas by Nancy Morejón.” Reprint of journal article in book: Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejón. Ed. Miriam DeCosta-Willis. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1999.101-108. By invitation. (Previously published in Afro Hispanic Review 7. 1 3 [Jan. Sept. 1988]: 36 38.)
    • Female Sexuality in A casa da paixão de Nélida Piñon: A Ritual Wedding Song in Narrative.” Love, Sex, and Eroticism in Contemporary Latin American Literature. Ed. Alun Kenwood. Melbourne, Madrid: Vox Hispana, 1993, pp. 143 152.

      Review Essay in Refereed Journal

    • “Internationalizing Brazilian Literature.” Latin American Research Review 39:3 (October 2004): 327-338. By invitation. (This is the prestigious international journal of the Latin American Studies Association.)

      Critical Articles in Refereed Journals

    • “Fernando de Szyslo en Elogio de la madrastra de Mario Vargas Llosa: el peligro del arte.” Alba de América 20, no. 37-38 (July 2000): 299-314.
    • “The End of Eréndira’s Prostitution.” Hispanic Review 69 (2001): 175-190.
    • “Alleging Allegory?: Luisa Valenzuela’s ‘Escaleran.’” Letras Femeninas XXVII, 1 (Mayo 2001): 37-48.
    • “Concealing Peru in Mario Vargas Llosa’s Elogio de la madrastra.” Chasqui 27.2 (July 1998): 38-53.
    • “Conundrums of Catastrophe,” an introductory essay to the special issue I edited for Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 8. 1 (1996): 1-9. (Appeared in August 1998.)
    • “Clarice Lispector’s (Post)Modernity and the Adolescence of the Girl-Colt.” MLN Hispanic Issue,113 (1998): 433-444.
    • “Luisa Valenzuela and New Realities: Realidad nacional desde la cama (1990).” Letras Femeninas 22.1-2 (1996): 107-120.
    • “Gender and Metaphoricity in ‘I’m Your Horse in the Night’ by Luisa Valenzuela,” World Literature Today 69. 4 (Autumn 1995): 702 708, by invitation.
    • “The Brazilian Writer Clarice Lispector: ‘I Never Set Foot in the Ukraine’.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (JILS) 6.1 (1994): 87 101.
    • “Female Sexuality in Selected Short Stories by Luisa Valenzuela: Toward an Ontology of her Work.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 6. 3 (Fall 1986): 48-54.
    • “Comparative Criticism of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1968 1979,” Boletín de Literatura Comparada [Mendoza, Argentina] año VI (1982): 51 58.
    • “Realism, Brazilian Modernism, Women: The Narrator in Mário de Andrade’s Amar, verbo intransitivo.” Literatura de Vanguarda Luso brasileira, Ed. Celso de Oliviera and Maria Angelica Lopes. Special Issue of Hispanic Studies 4 (1989): 140 49.

      • Critical Articles in Refereed Proceedings

    • “Os corpos, as sexualidades, as culturas.” ANAIS do X Seminário Nacional Mulher e literatura, I Seminário Internacional Mulher e literatura. 12 pp. on CD-ROM. Article describing 3-day graduate course given in Portuguese in João Pessoa, Brazil, August 2004. [Also published in book form. I have not received my book copy yet, so page numbers and publisher not listed yet.]
    • “La crítica feminista literaria y la novela no realista: María Luisa Bombal y Luisa Valenzuela.” Segundo Simposio Internacional de Literatura: Evaluación de la Literatura Feminista en Latinoamérica, Siglo XX. Vol. I. San José, Costa Rica: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, 1985, pp. 49 57.
    • “Female Sexuality in the Figural Mode: Luisa Valenzuela’s El gato eficaz.” El Cono Sur: Dinámica y Dimensiones de su Literatura: A Symposium. Ed. Rose Minc. Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College, 1985, pp. 131 36.

      • Critical Article in a Non Refereed Publication

    • “Patriarchy vs. Intrigue: A Comparison of Aegeus in Euripides’ and Corneille’s Medea Plays.” Papers in Romance 5. 2, Supplement 1 (July 1980): 121 26. (npr)

      • Annotated Bibliography in a Book

    • Compiled, edited, introduced “Spanish America,” a section of Women Writers in Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1945 1982. Garland Reference Library in the Humanities, v. 228. Eds. Margery Resnick, Isabelle de Courtivron. NY: Garland, 1984, pp. 227 246.

    REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, ETC.:

      Chapter in a Reference Work

    • “Miguel Angel Asturias,” Modern Latin American Fiction Writers: First Series. Ed. William Luis. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Dictionary of Literary Biography, 113. Detroit, London: Gale Research, 1992. 37 47. By invitation.

      • Brief Articles in Reference Works

    • 1, 2, 3. “Miguel Angel Asturias,” “Clarice Lispector” and “Rosario Castellanos,” 3 brief essays on the translations into English of these authors’ works. The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation. Ed. Olive Classe. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. Volume I: 82-84 (Asturias), 232-233 (Castellanos), and 856-857 (Lispector). By invitation.
    • “Rosario Castellanos,” Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women. Ed. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and David William Foster. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2001. 77-81. By invitation.

      • Interview with a Writer

    • “I Sing my Song for my Friends, An Exclusive Interview with Pulitzer Prize Nominee Giannina Braschi.” Brújula/Compass 32 (primavera/Spring 1999): 12-13. Translations.
    • “The Eternal Feminine,” Rosario Castellanos’ three act play, El eterno femenino, with Betty Tyree Osiek. A Rosario Castellanos Reader. Ed. and comp. Maureen Ahern. Austin: University of Texas Press, l988, pp. 273 367.
    • “Juana Ramírez,” an essay by Octavio Paz on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Signs: A Journal of Women in Society 5. 1 (Autumn 1979): 80 97.

      • Reviews

    • Colombian theatre in the vortex: seven plays, ed. by Judith A. Weiss. for Choice accepted April 2005.
    • The Colonial Subject’s Search for Nation, Culture, and Identity in the works of Julia Alvarez, Rosario Ferré, and Ana Lydia Vega by Eda B. Henao for Choice (July 2004): . Review # 41-6413.
    • Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World by Kimberle S. López for Choice. v. 40, No. 8 (April 2003): 1370. Review # 40-4493.
    • Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Marcy E. Schwartz, for MLN. 117.2 (March 2002): 517-519. By invitation.
    • Eu sou uma pergunta: uma biografia de Clarice Lispector, by Teresa Cristina Montero Ferreira, for Luso-Brazilian Review, 37.1 (Summer 2000): 138-139.
    • Talking Back: Toward a Latin American Feminist Criticism, by Debra A. Castillo, for Revista Hispánica Moderna (RHM) 47 (December 1994): 582 85.
    • Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women’s Fiction by Nora Erro Peralta and Caridad Silva Núñez, for Prairie Schooner 68. 3 (Fall 1994): 159 61.
    • Violent Acts: A Study of Contemporary Latin American Theatre by Severino João Albuquerque, for RHM 45 (1992): 370 372.
    • Seeking Promethean Woman in the New Poetry: Stein, Vallejo, Artaud, Rimbaud, Eliot, Jacob by Doris Wight, for Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire 18 (Summer 1992): 41 42.
    • Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction by Lois Parkinson Zamora, for RHM 44. 1 (June 1991): 169 171.
    • Understanding Gabriel García Márquez by Kathleen McNerney, for Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies/Cuadernos Interdisciplinarios de Estudios Literarios 3. 1 (1991): 122 123.
    • Reflections/Refractions: Reading Luisa Valenzuela by Sharon Magnarelli, for Hispania 73 (Sept. 1990): 670.
    • The Metamorphosis to Animal Form in Modern Latin American Narrative by Nancy Gray Diaz, for RHM 43. 1 (June 1990): 139 42.
    • You Can’t Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile, ed. by Alicia Partnoy for Prairie Schooner 64. 2 (Summer 1990): 123 26.
    • & 16. Momma: A Start on all the Untold Stories by Alta and Times and Places by Emily Hahn for First Person Female American: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of the Autobiographies of American Women Living After 1950, ed. Carolyn Rhodes. Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Co., 1980, pp. 6 8, 141 143. Special Supplement to Notes and Queries (1980).

    JOURNAL VOLUMES (edited):

    • “Conundrums of Catastrophe,” Special issue devoted to the literary responses to the Mexican earthquake of 1985, of Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (JILS), a refereed journal, Vol. 8, no. 1, 1998.

    GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS:

    • President of the Mississippi Foreign Language Association

      • Grants:

    • Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida , 2005 Library Research Grant, $750. May 2005.
    • Yoknapatawpha Arts Council grant, $450. “Cine World International Film Series.” Principal Investigator. January 2004.
    • Mississippi Humanities Council Mini-Grant, $2000, for Cine World International Film Series on the University of Mississippi campus. Project Director, 2003-2004, extension until June 2005.
    • University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, Summer 2003. “The Uruguayan Poet Delmira Agustini,” $5,000.00.
    • University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, for the purchase of materials for teaching and research on Latin America in Uruguay and Peru, $450, July 2000.
    • University of Florida, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures (UF RLL) Summer Grant, $3500, to research Delmira Agustini in Uruguay, Summer 2000.
    • UF RLL mini-grant, $500, reimbursement of expenses for permissions in publication of book, The Sexual Woman in Latin American Fiction, University Press of Florida, Spring 2000.
    • UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts and Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant for Summer 1998, $5,980, for salary support for book chapter “Mario Vargas Llosa and the Fear of the Sexual Mother.”
    • UF RLL block grant for manuscript preparation, $1,000, Spring-summer 1997.
    • Mellon Foundation, Faculty co sponsor (with Patricia Grieve) for internal grants for monies awarded to the Graduate Program in Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia Univ., 1991-92.
    • American Council of Literary Societies (ACLS) Travel Grant to the 46th International Congress of Americanistas in Amsterdam, July 1988, $500.
    • Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies, finalist twice,1984, 1985.
    • New Jersey State Grants in Fellowship Aid, 1977, 1983, 1984.

      • Fellowships:

    • University of Florida, Dept. of Sponsored Research Fellowship for Summer 1996, $7,500, “Asturias’s Mulata de tal.”
    • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, Spring 1992, “Clarice Lispector and Feminism.”
    • Two Fellowships from the Council on Research and Faculty Development, Columbia University, $3000 each, Summer 1990 & 1991.
    • Fulbright Fellowship at rank of Senior Lecturer to Colombia, July November 1988. Taught graduate and undergraduate seminars on “Comparative United States Latin American Contemporary Literature” in Colombian Universities. Granted two additional months, June July l989.
    • Fulbright Dissertation Grant for 1984 1985 to São Paulo, Brazil. Affiliated with Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros of the Universidade de São Paulo. Advisor: Prof. Telê Porto Ancona Lopez.
    • University Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1982 1983.
    • Northeast MLA Summer Fellowship, $1000, Summer 1983.

      • Sponsored Foreign Research (either as a Fellowship or a Grant):

      Quick Reference summary
    • Montevideo, Uruguay. Principally at the Biblioteca Nacional, July 2000, Delmira Agustini.
    • Paris, France. Columbia University Graduate Research Institute (GRI) at Reid Hall (Paris), Fall 1992, Brazilian Literature in France.
    • São Paulo, Brazil. Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, estagiária, September 1984 August l985, subject: Mário de Andrade.

    PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS:

    • AATSP American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese;
    • AIH Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas;
    • IILI Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana;
    • ILCH-Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico;
    • LASA Latin American Studies Association;
    • Feministas Unidas;
    • MFLA-Mississippi Foreign Language Association;
    • MLA Modern Language Association;
    • NWSA National Women’s Studies Association;
    • SCOLT- Southern Conference on Foreign Language Teaching
    • SECOLAS-South Eastern Conference on Latin American Studies
    • SSN-International Society for the Study of Narrative

    RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

    • Chair, Ciné World Film Committee
    • University Senator
    • Sarah Isom Center for Women Steering Committee
    • Comparative Literature Committee
    • Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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